Archived Anyone want to voluteer their COBOL skills to bail out the New Jersey govenor? (knuckledraggin.com)
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Archived Anyone want to voluteer their COBOL skills to bail out the New Jersey govenor? (knuckledraggin.com)
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[–] G45Colt_II [S] ago
I picked up a beginning COBOL book for next to nothing in a book store clearance rack. Never read it (other than a quick glance through it) and never learned COBOL. Probably could have, but was wrapping my head around C at the time. It's probably just as well.
[–] monsterdoggie 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
C ended up being used a lot more widely.
[–] TurquoiseLover 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
COBOL could have done it all but we were too busy paying bill gates for the "latest greatest" which called working storage (and everything else) a different name but was the same thing. I've read how many trillions were wasted on that and then the end result is he owns all your crap (and you pay him billions).